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TABLE QUIZ
Get ready for our next event: the annual William Carleton Society Table Quiz to raise funds for the Society including our revamped website that has been made possible with a grant from Mid Ulster District Council. TUESDAY 26th NOVEMBER at 8:00pm in McKenna’s bar Augher. Table of 4 £20. Raffle & team prizes to be…
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THE EMIGRANTS OF AHADARRA
The William Carleton Society is performing via The Carleton Players a reading of extracts from Carleton’s story “The Emigrants of Ahadarra” adapted by Liam Foley. The townland near Augher Co. Tyrone is often spelled Aughadarragh. Join us at the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh on: SATURDAY 2nd…
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CLOGHER CENTENARIAN
This obituary of Clogher centenarian Bridget McKenna was published in a local newspaper in 1929. Bridget was born in Clogher in 1824 and died just short of her 105th birthday. She is buried at the Forth Chapel, Ballynaguragh. In this report she recalled seeing William Carleton when he revisited the area. She also attended the…
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MARY O’ROURKE RIP
We note with sadness the passing of one of our summer school contributors from 2013 former Irish Minister Mary O’Rourke who had just published her memoir ‘Just Mary’. In her speech she mentioned the possibility of a future Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael Coalition that eventually came to pass in 2020 (with the Green Party). Click here…
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PÁDRAIG Ó BAOIGHILL RIP
The Society was sad to learn of the death of Dr Pádraig Ó Baoighill at his home in Monaghan in June. He was best known for the varied and extensive role he played in the Gael Linn organisation throughout Ireland and in Scotland. He also contributed to regular articles in Gaelic Magazines, the Irish Press…
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May Weather and the Aurora
Former director of the Armagh Observatory and treasurer of the William Carleton Society Professor emeritus Mark Bailey includes a reference to William Carleton and the Great Aurora (1833) in his May weather round-up. Mark writes as follows: “Armagh Observatory reports that May 2024 was much warmer than average, the warmest May on record. It was…
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Professor Gerald Dawe RIP
Michael Fisher writes: It was sad to learn of the death at his home in Dún Laoghaire on Wednesday 29th May of another Carleton scholar, the poet & TCD Professor emeritus Gerald Dawe. I met him a few years ago during the East Side arts festival at his former school in East Belfast, Orangefield Boys…
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Mary McCaffrey RIP
The committee and members of the William Carleton Society were saddened to learn of the death on March 12th of Mary McCaffrey of Main Street, Fivemiletown. Mary was a brother of our former treasurer, Tom McKeagney, and was a frequent visitor to the annual summer school since it began in 1992 in Clogher. Her funeral…
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Launch of Digital Archive
Traditional musicians the McKenna family from Clogher helped to recreate the atmosphere of past years at Blaeberry Sunday at St Patrick’s Chair and Well Altadaven. The occasion was the launch of the Society’s digital archive project in August 2023 for which a small grant was received from Mid Ulster Council and whose Chair Cllr Dominic…